Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, Primarily Harm Minoritized Groups, New Rutgers Study Finds
Audiovisual manipulation created for false personation primarily harms people in minoritized groups and serves to benefit those who are already powerful.
Scholars at the School of Communication and Information take an interdisciplinary approach to research that spans the fields of information science, library studies, communication, journalism and media studies.
Audiovisual manipulation created for false personation primarily harms people in minoritized groups and serves to benefit those who are already powerful.
Mandelbaum, who has served on the SC&I faculty for 35 years, uses the methods of Conversation Analysis to examine everyday talk-in-interaction, and is also a co-director of the Rutgers University Conversation Analysis Lab (RUCAL).
A new study examines factors that may make people more vulnerable to false information.
Carol Ann Farino was murdered in Maplewood, N.J. in 1966 and her killer has still not been caught. In his new book about the case, Joe Strupp, a reporter for the Asbury Park Press and SC&I part time lecturer, explores the murder and its aftermath, and describes the challenges involved in reporting on true crime.
In his newest book, “Four Streets and a Square,” Marc Aronson explores 400 years of Manhattan’s history, with a focus on what he has coined “The New York City Idea”: the value of mixture, of people, of ideas, and of cultures found in New York City.”
The newly published “Excellence in Higher Education-Renewal (EHE-R) Framework,” specifically designed to assist U.S. colleges and universities recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, was written by Distinguished Professor of Communication Brent Ruben with input from colleagues from Rutgers.
Professor John Pavlik and doctoral student Shravan Regret Iyer, experts in experiential media, said presenting research for the first time in the Metaverse at the Sixth World Summit for Tourism and Hospitality Conference “was unique and surprisingly effective.”
Rutgers Today spoke with some of the university’s experts in health care, environmental science and engineering, education, labor and business to discuss what we have learned since the onset of COVID-19 and what we might expect in the future.
By Megan Schumann, Rutgers University Office of Communications
Racial bias among health care providers may limit the number of Black women who could be taking a daily pill to prevent HIV infection, according to a Rutgers-led study.
A new study by Professor John Pavlik finds Cinematic VR storytellers are not fully utilizing virtual reality, and, Pavlik said, “unless they fully utilize its affordances, the impact of cinematic VR will fall short of its potential.”